livestock 1
Member
I have three dippers and it costs somewhere under £1000 for all three
Sheep Dip DIsposal
- Thread starter LAMBCHOPS
- Start date
livestock 1
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Yes it’s £300 ish per disposal area per yearCan it not be put onto grassland these days?
- Location
- Cheshire
Not to the letter of the law you can’t. Must be on a designated area agreed and licenced by the EACan it not be put onto grassland these days?
- Location
- Cheshire
How on earth they think they can charge us £300 for disposal on our own ground is beyond me? Yes designate an area we are allowed to use, not next to the river etc. but how the hell do they merit £300?? barstewards
- Location
- West Wales
I’ve got maps that show large areas we could spread on years ago, obviously being organic I can’t now but we stopped dipping the same year we converted.
- Location
- South Wales UK
This was running FREE in Wales?
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livestock 1
Member
Yes that’s my thoughts too. It goes into the ‘principal of the matter’ part of life
You buy the sheep buy the dip buy the land or pay rent for the land and then have to pay some one else to spread the dip you’ve bought on your own land
How did we end up here??
- Location
- Carmarthenshire, West Wales
many years ago, I had permission to dispose of dip on the farm here, if I remember correctly I had to send in a map of the farm, and they told me where I could spread it (and told them where spring water for the house came from too). Then became organic and OP's are not allowed so let it lapse, no idea what the rules are now.
livestock 1
Member
It’s an annual fee it went up to around £900 from £300 ish but they had altered the volumes and charges per cubic metre we claimed it back
- Location
- South Wales UK
The Welsh Water springs they use to use for this area had to be disregarded allegedly because of the sheep dip contents from the hills apparently???
- Location
- Carmarthenshire, West Wales
I seem to remember reading the synthetic pryethenoids were far safer for the operator than OP's but far far worse for the environment.
- Location
- Cheshire
They told me that at college. Those SP dips were nasty
- Location
- South Wales UK
Organophosphates
livestock 1
Member
SP is a weaker chemical warfare nerve agent
- Location
- Cheshire
Our vet med lecturer reckoned the SP’s would do farmers a lot more harm than OP’s. I’m not a scientist so I don’t knowAre you England or Wales.
If Wales who do you contact to set up your disposal licence in the never ending phone chain/music/press number one malarky.
Also can you explain more the charges per cubic metre issue/claim back?
livestock 1
Member
England it’s EA
You won’t need to claim anything back it’s all to do with how much cubic m of dip you want to dispose of
The £270 licence has enough volumes for what you will need
You won’t need to claim anything back it’s all to do with how much cubic m of dip you want to dispose of
The £270 licence has enough volumes for what you will need
Pistonbroke
Member
Dip disposal charges and licences.are.the reason scab cases have rocketed over the years. Nobody ever saw scab when it simple to just spread it with your slurry
- Location
- Cheshire
But that didn’t provide the boys with lots of paperwork and jobs…
Pistonbroke
Member
Exactly. It's just a cash cow. There was more fish in the rivers thirty years ago than now too. Let the slurry, effluent and dip go straight down the brook again and we can have trout for supper
